Ever feel like youve hurt your chances of getting a job interview because youve changed careers in the past? Multiple career changes used to raise some real big red flags to prospective employers.
But nowadays, its completely normal to have more than one career change. Interestingly enough, most career changes arent about getting rich. Most are about getting happy.
Marci Albhoer is the author of One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success. If you took note of the slashes in the title of her book, theres a good reason for them: she calls the multiple career path the slash effect.
Marci was a corporate lawyer who was extremely successful. And extremely miserable. She wanted desperately to become a writer instead. But as she found out, its very difficult to leave a very high-paying job that youve had for a long time.
In an interview with Time Magazines blog, Marci shared a bit of her dilemma
“its really hard to leave a job youre trained for, rewarded for and perform well. A friend told her, ‘I cant believe youre so good at a job you hate so much.'”
Marci isnt alone out there. Those with high-paying...